Word: helm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is a slender youth manfully turning a large spoked wheel by jerks and tugs. You say he is preparing for a sailor's career at the helm of a bounding bark. It may be that he is only the prospective owner of a small car. Over there, a future commuter is practicing strap hanging by chinning himself with one hand slowly but firmly over a horizontal bar. Later on he will turn a few handsprings on the mats. (The children in the party will enjoy this...
Second Round--Hoppe and Brubacher defeated Sears and Noyes, 6-3, 7-5; Hill and Briggs defeated Stralem and Rouillion 6-2, 6-1; Helm and Hyams defeated Townsend and Hope by default; Hoskins and Bailey defeated Stern and Nesbit, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; Whitehouse and Duncan defeated Davis and Langeathal by default; Hill and Butman defeated Steres and partner by default; Warren and Swift defeated Clemenco and Quel, 6-3, 6-1; Hesseltine and Carlson defeated Baldwin and Hamilton by default; Farnham and Farnham defeated Ross and Heustin...
...crews start work at Gales' Ferry today with a new hand at the helm. This hand will endeavor to straighten out at the eleventh hour the erratic course of this year's university crews. P. J. Corderry has the hardest job on his hands in American university rowing. With an inexperienced crew and a discredited system he has 18 days in which to train a winning combination. If he can do it no coach in the country -- no, not even the famous Dr. Spaeth will be considered greater...
With all of the letter men back, except J. S. Stubbs '20, Captain N. S. Walker '20 and T. M. Avery '21, Coach W. H. Claflin Jr. '15, last year's coach, and again at the helm this winter, will have an abundance of proven material with which to develop a team to retain possession of the Intercollegiate Hockey Title which was won by the University last year. He will be aided from time to time by Coach A. Winsor '02, the father of the "Harvard Hockey System," and to hockey what Haughton has been for football...
...Lourie, who came to Cambridge last Saturday to watch team "B" defeat the Virginians, was again at the helm and Wittmer appeared at full for the first time in two weeks. It was announced that the latter had entirely recovered from his early season injury and would be back in the game Saturday. Scheerer and McManman, the former having suffered a recent bereavement, and the latter having spent the day in New York in order to see the dentist as a result of injuries received last Saturday, were not in uniform, but both are expected to report tomorrow. Murrey, Keck...